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Ymar under a tree
Why does this scene keep popping up in the story?
Index · 6 messages · 5 voices · 20 Jul 2010
Ymar under a tree
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António Pedro Marques
Maybe he's a Buddha-like figure? The "Almost" in his name indicating he has yet to achieve enlightenment?
↳ in reply to
Matthew Keeley
Would an enlightened person be just?
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Maybe he's a Buddha-like figure? The "Almost" in his name indicating he has yet to achieve enlightenment?
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brunians at brunians.org
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On 07/20/2010 05:42 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
Would an enlightened person be just?
Just enlightened.
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Adam Thornton
I think he might get close.
But to be just, I just don't see it.
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On 07/20/2010 05:42 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
Would an enlightened person be just?
Just enlightened.
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Matthew Keeley
In Scholastic thought, the virtues as we know them, including justice, are not real things in themselves, but human participation in eternal virtues (the names of those escape me.)
Humans in Heaven will attain these eternal virtues, but will find that even they are only the lesser shadows of divine virtues.
So ever someone who is "just" on Earth is not "just" in the same sense as someone who is "just" in Heaven, and even that person would not be "just" in the sense that God is just.
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Matthew Keeley
<matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com>wrote:
Maybe he's a Buddha-like figure? The "Almost" in his name indicating he has yet to achieve enlightenment?
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